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Cabinet - Sources

Clay Whistle (Tajikistan and Uzbekistan)
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Toward miniaturisation: the Fusee
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From apothecary shop to cabinet of curiosities
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Great azimuth semicircle
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Museum Hermeticum Reformatum et Amplificatum, 1618: a visual commentary on the Emerald Tablet
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Introduction: New inventions, c. 1600
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Icon of Mahatma Gandhi
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Natural philosophy and medicine: the Schools Quadrangle
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Philip Stephens and William Browne's 'Catalogus Horti Botanici Oxoniensis' (1658)
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Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society, 1667
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Astrolabes: How do they work?
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Richard Verstegan, Theatrum Crudelitatem Haereticorum Nostri Temporis (1587)
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Анкета-заявление на переселение (Таджикистан)
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‘Christian Monuments, Tassorić’ / ‘Graveyard at Tassorić’
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Examination Papers (1978)
Europe c. 1700
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BSH9: Silver stater of King Onasi-, Paphos (Cyprus), probably c. 450-420 BC.
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Venetian territories and trade routes
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The World in 1700
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Imser Planetary Clock, ca 1554-61
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Lithograph of Saami fishermen
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Georg Christoph Stirn, 1638
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Towers of the Orders before Merton
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John of Sacrobosco, De Sphaera Mundi (Venice, 1490)
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